Re: [DebianGIS] Fw: [Liblas-devel] Fwd: LAS 1.2 and libLAS
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:45:39PM -0800, Hamish wrote:
>
> re. creating a liblas package for debian. liblas contains some ported
> "lastools" user programs which had a slightly unclear license as far as
> DSFGs are concerned. The following email is from the original lastools
> author. liblas itself is released under a BSD license.
>
> http://liblas.org
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/
>
> LAS is a geodata storage format commonly used with massive LIDAR datasets.
> Liblas development is closely tied to gdal and OSGeo and it is hoped that
> one day soon the LAS format will be available as a Gdal-plugin using
> liblas.
>
> liblas is looking for a debian packager to adopt it. (it's fairly simple)
>
>
It's among the quite long list of prospective packages in
http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/debiangis-status.html
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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